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| spikelet | A unit of the inflorescence in grasses, sedges and some other monocotyledons, consisting of one to many flowers and associated glumes. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| spikenard | 1. <botany> An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India. 2. A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi. Origin: For spiked nard; cf. G. Spieknarde, NL. Spica nardi. See Spike an ear, and Nard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiketail | <zoology> The pintail duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spile | 1. A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask. 2. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple. 3. A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile. Spile hole, a small air hole in a cask; a vent. Origin: Cf. LG. Spile, dial. G. Speil, speiler, D. Spijl. 170. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spilikin | One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. Alternative forms: spillikin, spilliken. Origin: OD. Spelleken a small pin. See Spill a splinter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spill | 1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. "And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill." (Chaucer) "Greater glory think [it] to save than spill." (Spenser) 2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. "They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship." (Puttenham) "Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations." (Fuller) 3. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour. Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, a loss or waste contrary to purpose. 4. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood. "And to revenge his blood so justly spilt." (Dryden) 5. To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain. Spilling line, a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. Spill, n. An instance of spilling. Oil spill, an accidental release of oil, usually into the ocean, due to damage to an oil tanker or uncontrolled release from an underwater well. Origin: OE. Spillen,sually, to destroy, AS. Spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. Spilla to destroy, Sw. Spilla to spill, Dan. Spilde,G. & D. Spillen to squander, OHG. Spildan. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. Origin: Spilt; Spilling. 1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. 2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically: A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. A metallic rod or pin. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. <chemical> One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. 3. A little sum of money. Origin: Cf. Spell a splinter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiller | 1. One who, or that which, spills. 2. A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spillet fishing | A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spilliard fishing | A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spillway | A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiloma | Synonym: nevus. Origin: G. Spilos, spot, + -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiloplaxia | A red spot observed in leprosy or pellagra. Origin: G. Spilos, spot, + plax, a plaque, plate (05 Mar 2000) |
| spilt | A crack, or longitudinl fissure. 2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. 3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. 4. Specif, one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses. 5. <veterinary> A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spilus | Synonym: nevus spilus. Origin: Mod. L. Fr. G. Spilos, a spot (05 Mar 2000) |
| spin | 1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fibre; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. "They neither know to spin, nor care to toll." (Prior) 2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. "Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together." (Longfellow) "With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head." (G. W. Cable) 3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. 4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. 1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. "All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths." (Shak) 2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject. "Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?" (Sheridan) 3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. "By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives." (L'Estrange) 4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top. 5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc. 6. <mechanics> To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe. To spin a yarn, to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. Origin: AS. Spinnan; akin to D. & G. Spinnen, Icel. & Sw. Spinna, Dan. Spinde, Goth. Spinnan, and probably to E. Span. Cf. Span, Spider. 1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. 2. <physics> Velocity of rotation about some specified axis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Fusion, Spinal, Fusions, Spinal, Spinal Fusions, Spondylodeses, Spondylosyndeses
Synonyms : Injuries, Spinal, Injury, Spinal, Spinal Injury
Synonyms : HMN (Hereditary Motor Neuropathy) Proximal Type I, Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, Type I, Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, Type II, Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, Type III, Proximal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy Type I, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type I, Werdnig Hoffman Disease
Synonyms : Neoplasm, Spinal, Neoplasms, Spinal, Spinal Neoplasm
Synonyms : Dorsal Root, Nerve Root, Spinal, Nerve Roots, Spinal, Root, Dorsal, Root, Spinal, Root, Spinal Nerve, Root, Ventral, Roots, Dorsal, Roots, Spinal, Roots, Spinal Nerve, Roots, Ventral, Spinal Nerve Root, Spinal Root, Ventral Root
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a transient variation in voltage or current sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction" ear: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis stand in the way of a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline; "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor" transfix: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer" a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall secure with spikes a long sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal) bring forth a spike or spikes; "my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now" any holding device consisting of a sharp-pointed object add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!" a long metal nail manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked"
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| spiral bandage |
an oblique bandage in which successive turns overlap preceding turns
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| spirillum |
spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
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| Spirillum minus |
ratbite fever bacterium: a bacterium causing ratbite fever
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| spirit |
the vital principle or animating force within living things the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings emotional state: the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose" intent: the intended meaning of a communication liveliness: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" heart: an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart" infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"
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| SPI | native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States |
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| SPI | web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees |
| SPI | arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail |
| SPI | a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate |
| SPI | South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers |
| SPI | Central American orchid having spiderlike flowers with prominent green warts |
| SPI | any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys |
| SPI | native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States |
| SPI | a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey |
| SPI | a web resembling the webs spun by spiders |
| SPI | a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey |
| SPI | a web resembling the webs spun by spiders |
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